PPT-Dante’s Inferno Cantos

Canto 1 The Dark Wood of Error Read handout for Canto 1 lines 160 Answer the following question Dante says in line 12 of Canto 1 that he has wandered from the True Way If the Dark Wood of Error is a symbol of worldliness what does the True Way represent On an allegorical level what might the three animals that try to force Dante back into the Dark Wood represent. Canto XII. Professor Andrea . Mazzucchi. Università. . di. Napoli ‘Federico II’. Critical treatments of Inferno Canto 12 have expressed serious reservations, and even quite negative assessments, that it is discordant in tone and lacks organic structure. . : A Synopsis. Braden J. Krien .  University Honors Program .  University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The Divine Comedy. is an epic poem by the Dante Alighieri in which the character Dante must travel through Hell and Purgatory with the aid of Virgil before he is brought into Heaven by the first love of his life, Beatrice. The poem is not only the story of an imagined physical journey through the afterlife but also a allegorical journey towards salvation and a representation of the development of the poet.. Inferno. Oooh…Scary. !. Before we begin our journey into the depths of Dante’s Hell…. What other depictions of Hell have you seen?. Ever play “DOOM?”. Ever wonder what Hell . looks . like?. CANTO 3: THE VESTIBULE OF HELL. The Opportunists. “Neither for good nor evil but only for themselves”. Uncommitted one way or another; never chose sides in Rebellion of Angels. Reside on shores of Acheron (not in Hell or outside of it). By Dante Alighieri. LIFE AND TIMES. Dante was born in 1265 in Florence. . At the age of 9 he met for the first time the eight-year-old . Beatrice . Portinari. , who became in effect his Muse. , and remained, after her death in 1290, the central inspiration for his major poems.. 1265-1321. The Inferno. The Inferno is an . Allegory. It is meant to be understood on two levels . 1. Literal . – actual progress through the story. - . Dante literally travels from hell through purgatory and finally heaven. By Robert Sobel. Have You Ever Wondered What Hell Looks Like?. Ordinary World. “Born . in 1265 to a family with a history of involvement in the complex Florentine political . scene*...”. “When . By Dante Alighieri. LIFE AND TIMES. Dante was born in 1265 in Florence. . At the age of 9 he met for the first time the eight-year-old . Beatrice . Portinari. , who became in effect his Muse. , and remained, after her death in 1290, the central inspiration for his major poems.. – Introduction. Allegory: . a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. .. Allusion: . an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.. 1. What do you think happens in Canto 6-33, if you know that Canto 5 was about Circle 2, and Canto 34 is about Circle 9? . 2. . What sin will put you in Circle 9, and who lives there?. 3. . What does “. Class project for Dr.Hale’s World Literature Course - Fall 1999 by Barbara Christopher. How to stay out of Hell. “The Law of contradiction is a basic principle of Aristotelian logic: to repent of one’s sin and to want to commit it at the same time is a self-contradiction.”. April, 23,2009. English 230. Assignment 3. . Cantos 7. The entrance of circle 4-The Avaricious and Prodigal. The Fourth Circle is one of just three in all the circles of Hell in which Dante recognizes no one, so deeply did he feel that a life of concern with getting and spending destroys the soul. What he does recognize is how many leaders of the Church are in this circle; no wonder the world goes wrong, he says later in Purgatory, if those who are supposed to guide us all to the bliss of union with God are themselves obsessed with material things.. The Birth of Dante’s Purgatory Though Dante’s topography for the realms of Hell and Paradise are influenced by existing scriptural and visionary texts, his topographical vision of Purgatory is largely original. ), . Heresy and Violence. Circles (2-7). OLLI: Dante’s . Inferno. Spring 2017. Kristina Olson. Another non-trivial item. The first literary reference for . pizza. appears in the context of the Harpies (which we see in .